As the christmas break drew closer Hermione had noticed that Snape and Regulus had been hovering over her, as if deciding whether or not ot approacher every time she was in the Library. Finally, two days before the full moon and four days until she would be getting on the Hogwarts Express to spend three weeks at James's house, she had had enough. She slammed her book closed, packed up all of her homework into her bag and stood. She walked over to the two boys that had been staring at her for the last hour or so and raised an eyebrow. Snape just looked at her, and she wasn't sure if he was thinking about what he saw in her mind or if he was suspicious of her for some reason. Regulus however, looked like a dear caught in the headlights. His dark grey eyes, bright and wide as he looked bewteen Hermione and Snape, unsure as to what would happen and be said.
"It's seems you were put in Slytherin for good reason. Not enough courage." Hermione stated coldly, not yet ready to forgive Snape's intrusion quite yet.
"And it seems that you were put in the wrong house because you are far to cunning and ambicious to be a Gryffindor." Snape responded and Hermione couldn't help the small smile that graced her face. She had noticed the changes with in her after the war, as she had had to think like the enemy in order to not die and make sure Harry succeeded in killing Voldemort. It came in handy now too.
"That may be. But it doesn't explain why you two have been hanging around me every second I've spent in the Library since the start of December. So out with it. What do you want?" She asked them.
"I want to appologise for invading your person space and seeing something I should not have. It was wrong of me and I'm sorry." Severus said and Hermione just stared at him in shock. She had not expected the man to actually appologise to her. When she got back to her time, she was so going to tease him about it.
"Good. You should be." Hermione said, not accepting the appology but not dismissing it either.
"I have questions though." Snape added and Hermione sighed. Had she really expected any different from the tenacious bastard?
"Ask away." She said, not eactly sure how she was going to explain herself.
"What I saw, it was the future wasn't it?" Severus asked her and she just nodded. She had never been good at lying and she didn't really think that Snape would believe her attemps like so many of the Gryffindors did when it came to her origins.
"And I was a Professor?" Again she nodded.
"Of what?" He asked.
"What do you think?" She asked him and he smiled slightly.
"Potions." She nodded once more.
"Was it a vision? Are you actually a seer?" He asked her and she sighed. Should she tell him the truth, or should she lie to not bring suspision onto herself?
"I can't explain that to you. It's too dangerous. What if your occulimency fails to protect your mind and Voldemort discovers me? He would either order me to be killed on sight or want to capture me for his own usage and I would rather not have either of those things happening any time soon." She said and Reggie made a strangled sound of distress at the thought of somene being killed. Hermione glanced over to him to see he was following the conversation but was looking down at his hands.
"Well then, you should help us again. We're useless on our own." Snape said and Hermione whipped her head back to him, shocked that he had just admitted to being useless.
"Right then. Lessons being after the holidays, Mondays and Wednesdays. Same place same time." She said and then turned on her heal and left the library.